
CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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Lake Wenatchee will closes for sockeye salmon fishing one hour after official sunset Tuesday, the state just announced.
Sockeye mortality, both substantial and unexpected, has occurred during migration up the Wenatchee River due to high water temperatures. As a result, sufficient numbers of sockeye are not available to continue the Lake Wenatchee sport-fishing season.
To date, anglers have harvested 2,040 sockeye from Lake Wenatchee, according to a news release. The remaining fish will be allowed to escape capture and spawn, ensuring fish for the future.
An icefall is being blamed for the death of a well known Colorado climber early Sunday at North Cascades National Park, according to a news release just sent out.
Craig Luebben, 49, of Golden, Colo., and Guillermo Benegas of Sandy, Utah, were beginning the Torment-Forbidden Traverse, which is an alpine rock ridge traverse connecting the two peak summits. The climb begins with an ascent of Mount Torment.
Having ascended most of the Taboo Glacier on approach to Mount Torment’s southeast face, the two climbers were negotiating a huge gap between two sections of ice called a bergshrund. When Luebben moved onto the upper section of glacier, a 100-foot tall, 20-foot wide and 10-foot deep piece of ice broke off taking Luebben with it.
While a single cam device held his fall, Luebben still fell approximately 40 feet and was critically injured by falling ice. Pieces of ice also hit Benegas, but he was able to position Luebben on a ledge and scramble to a location where he could call 911 with a cell phone.
National Park Service rangers were transported to the scene by via helicopter and preceded with a recovery and rescue of the two climbers.
Luebben was a well known and accomplished climber, Everest guide and author, having first ascents in Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Zion and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Parks.
